Monday Pictures Present: The Long Way Home.

Our third short film.

This one was written and directed by Matt Larsen. And we completed it as our Vidiocy project. (No word on whether we've made it as one of the ten finalists, yet.)

Initially, we all pitched a story idea that would work with the title "The Long Way Home". Mine was a tender story of a junior level exec show learns lessons about balancing life with work, while travelling through Chicago with a long, deceased, but still active senior exec. Bob's was a short, simple little trip through a Chicago where nothing was on any radio station except the song, "The Long Way Home". Ryan had a thing where an alien said goodbye to his girlfriend before he left forever...and also blew up the earth. Matt's concept was what you're about to see in the following short film.

It's ambitious in that it's our first use of green screen technology for shots. There's also a fair amount of background shots and animation. At the very least, we now have a better idea of what Imovie is capable of. Which is handy when planning out future shorts.

Currently, I'm debating what my next project will be. I've got a thing where we see the reality behind a lesbian relationship. And there's another short film that is just a lengthy series of outtakes from a fictional movie that we won't bother making. Outtakes from the love scene of a movie that we won't make. Seems like all my videos are scatalogically oriented.

Honestly, since we're focusing on comedic shorts right now, I see nothing wrong with that. Sex and the conditions thereof, are funny. We want these things to be funny.

Here's "The Long Way Home".



(My cameo as "Shirtless Fat Guy In Background" happens around 2:25 in the film. It's terribly flattering.)

EDITED TO ADD:
Hooray! We placed in the top ten at this year's Vidiocy! Now, we just need to wrangle friends to come and vote for us to possibly win the top prize. Hooray!

For Interested Folks, The VIDIOCY is Tuesday, June 12th at The Lakeshore Theater! Admission is just $5!

EDITED TO ADD EVEN LATER:
Well, we didn't win. In fact, we didn't even place in the top 4. But that's to be expected, considering we didn't bring anyone with us to vote for the video. The winning video (which was actually pretty funny) had a big cast and they all brought friends. When the contest is decided by popular vote, them's the breaks.
We chatted about it later and we decided that the actual honor was being selected to be in the Top Ten. That meant that someone (the judges actually) watched our video and said, "Hey, that's pretty good. It gets bumped up to the big show." After that, it comes down to how many asses you put in the seats.
We will probably do future Vidiocy's. It's too early to be jaded about the process.